HOW TO TREAT HEMOPHILIA A:
- Regular expensive transfusions can keep the bleeding under control (creates clotting factor level 1% greater than normal blood)
- Comes in the form of plasma (high risk of contracting hepatitis B)
- Regular injections of clotting proteins
- Gene therapy : inject a virus with clotting gene infects muscle tissue
- *no clear side effects
- Note: this method is still under research
- *no clear side effects